Alison Emmerson
New York
Alison Emmerson graduated from Smith College with a B.A. in Education and French in 2012. She is currently earning a teaching certification for grades 5-12 French, along with an advanced tutoring license, and an academic coaching certification. Upon graduating, Alison entered the workforce and taught fourth grade at an all-girls' charter school in the south Bronx. She received a Fulbright scholarship to travel to Vietnam during the summer of 2013. In Vietnam, she studied Vietnamese and published lesson plans on cross-cultural issues. This year, Alison is working as a reading intervention specialist at Manhattan College and is also studying French, Arabic and Vietnamese. Alison is particularly adamant about language pedagogy, multiculturalism, education as a mechanism for social change, and girls' educational rights.